Reverence for life, veneratio vitæ, is the most direct and at the same time the profoundest achievement of my will-to-live.

Our degeneration, when it is traced back to its origin in our view of the world really consists in the fact that true optimism has vanished unperceived from our midst.

No man need fear death, he need fear only that he may die without having known his greatest power: the power of his free will to give his life for others

The quiet conscience is the invention of the devil. No one of us may permit any preventable pain to be inflicted even though the responsibility for that pain is not ours. No one may shut his eyes and think that the pain which is therefore not visible, is non-existent.

The demands of Jesus are difficult just because they require us to do something extraordinary. At the same time he asks us to regard these as something usual, ordinary.

Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile.

Set a great example. Someone may imitate it.